Steve Vernon > Quotes

“At the end of the day this is nothing more than a blog. It's nice to hit them high notes - but REALLY - how significant do you think something that sort of sounds like the sound of a flatulent frog being run over by a clown car really needs to be?”
― Steve Vernon

“We all learn to carry so much unnecessary regret. We drag it around behind ourselves and wear it sewn into the inner lining of our shadow. I think that the heart of every ghost story ever told is awash with the soft faded autumnal color of pure unredeemable regret.”
― Steve Vernon, Not Just Any Old Ghost Story...: Steve Vernon's Sea Tales Book 7

“So as near as I could tell the end of the world began roughly about the time that Billy Carver’s butt rang about halfway through the War of 1812.”
― Steve Vernon, Flash Virus Episode One

“You can't live the story of your life properly without the occasional addition of a little sudden drama.”
― Steve Vernon, Sinking Deeper

“What did grown men see in the rattle of sticks, the slashing of steel over ice and hockey sweaters worn way beyond funk?”
― Steve Vernon

“My first jailbreak began when a coarse-toothed mechanic’s file crashed through the window of the Deeper Harbour Police
Station at two in the morning. The file bounced three or four times before clattering to a halt among a scatter of shattered glass. The file spun a little and came to rest, like a compass needle pointing somewhere far off the edge of the map. Looking back from right here and right now I believe I would like to start this story right then—three days after I had just turned fourteen—spending my birthday in jail. - SINKING DEEPER”
― Steve Vernon

“It is midnight in the hard part of town. The mask is itching like it always does. The ragged end of my cape is soaking in a puddle of something I don't want to guess about. I'm crouched behind a kicked-in aluminum trash can. It stinks of rotted meat and drunkard's piss - and I feel right at home. (from Nothing to Lose)”
― Steve Vernon

“There were a lot of them - so many promises washed up like waves on the rocky beach, only to be pulled away just as fast.”
― Steve Vernon, Sudden Death Overtime: A Story of Hockey and Vampires

“his argument might have involved a threat of excommunication and quite possibly her being unfriended and permanently blocked from the Vatican’s Facebook page.”
― Steve Vernon, Kelpie Dreams

“Walking into an ocean isn’t nearly as easy as they make it look on Baywatch. The”
― Steve Vernon, Kelpie Dreams

“I wondered if that was how the world went round - nothing more than eight billion strangers sitting together and telling each other stories and lies while trying to figure out just who the hell each other really was.”
― Steve Vernon, Not Just Any Old Ghost Story...: Steve Vernon's Sea Tales Book 7

“Forgive me if I am repeating myself but time travelling will do that to a fellow.”
― Steve Vernon, A Blurt In Time: The Tale of a Time Traveling Toilet

“Things live on a whole lot longer when they are living in story and memory.” “Okay,”
― Steve Vernon, Kelpie Dreams

“Yes, boys and girls, today’s near-death experience was brought to you by the number eight and the letters WTF!”
― Steve Vernon, Kelpie Dreams

“The best kinds of stories are made up out of little bits of truth and stretched into a pleasing shape.”
― Steve Vernon, Big Hairy Deal

“Let me tell you, deep-water sea-bitch wrestling can work up an awful appetite. Then”
― Steve Vernon, Kelpie Dreams

“Some people just never seem to let themselves be happy,” the sea hag said. “It’s like they fight against their own contentment.” Was”
― Steve Vernon, Kelpie Dreams

“People are puzzles that way.

We are complicated mechanisms.

Just when you think that you have got a certain person all figured out they go and they change on you and you have to go and start that whole figuring-out process all over again from the beginning.”
― Steve Vernon, Big Hairy Deal

“I've been hearing about how good and kind and merciful that old boy is upstairs, but I've read the Old Testament. You just take a look at all the folks that Jehovah decreed needed to burned or sacked and smited out of their homes. That old fellow is a psychopathic serial killer, you just check the facts.”
― Steve Vernon, Hammurabi Road